Clipping:Good feelings between the Athletics and the Atlantics
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| Date | Sunday, September 6, 1868 |
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| Text | When [the Athletics and the Atlantics] first played together, they most friendly feeling prevailed between them; but as the Athletics increased in strength, and the rivalry between them became greater, the pleasant meetings diminished, until ill-feeling replaced the previous harmony. This interruption to the kindly intercourse between the two clubs proceeded to such a length at last, that both resorted to discreditable conduct in their efforts to win victories or to avoid defeats. But these evils have their own cure. It was not long before both organizations found that they were only cutting their own throats simply to gratify the evil passions of the class of patrons who sought only to use the two clubs merely as tools to advance their pecuniary interests; and, finally, we are glad to see both clubs have arrived at the conclusion that the interests of both, not only a regards pecuniary considerations, but also in reference to the reputation of both, as fair and manly exponents of the game, required that the childish ill-feeling and school-boy pets and quarreling should cease, and be replaced by actions more characteristic of men than street-boys; and this season a movement was inaugurated which has led to the restoration of the friendly feeling which prevailed under the Fitzgerald regime, and singularly enough the event was signalized by the reinstating of their old President in the good graces of the best members of the club, and now we shall hope to see the era of good feeling and of playing ball for the excitement and sport of the thing between the two clubs replace the bickering, bad management, and evil influences which have of late years brought both clubs down to a rather low level, greatly to the prejudice of the good name of baseball, and to the injury of the two organizations. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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